Danny ChaiFacebook notes, since people aren’t always aware of what’s going on with the site.
First a heads-up – Facebook is going to be giving people usernames that you can use to refer to your profile. For example, http://www.facebook.com/dchai. It’s going to be handled on a first-come, first-serve starting 12:01 EDT this Saturday (June 13). Just FYI, so you have the opportunity to the get the username you want. henryhsu may be taken on Twitter, but you’ll get a fair shot on Facebook. And someone will be able to snag gracekim, if they’re fast enough.
I’ve realized that a lot of people don’t get the new newsfeed, so some basic info about it – it shows everything all your friends/Pages are doing. If you ‘x’ out a story from your friend, you won’t see anything from them ever again. You can unhide them by going to the bottom of the feed and clicking on “Show Hidden Posts”.
Personally, I find seeing everything overwhelming so I tend to use the filters on the left to just view photo updates or notes updates, etc.
The Highlights in the right column is kind of what Newsfeed was like before – not everything that’s happening, but the best-of, stuff you’re more likely to be interested in.
Photo album sizes were increased from a maximum of 60 photos to 200 recently.
Also added the ability to specify family relationships, not just significant others, in your profile. Haven’t seen many people use it.
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